Tcl/Tk advocacy ... Make magazine

Sp...@controlq.com

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Oct 10, 2008, 10:11:39 AM10/10/08

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The current issue of Make magazine has a project which combines an RFID
reader with a conveyor belt (doesn't everyone have one?), and has a
favourable sidebar mention of Tcl/Tk. Not a big deal, but I thought I'd
bring it to your attention ...

Cheers,
Rob Sciuk
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Helmut Giese

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Oct 10, 2008, 10:42:45 AM10/10/08

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:11:39 -0400, Sp...@ControlQ.com wrote:

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>The current issue of Make magazine has a project which combines an RFID
>reader with a conveyor belt (doesn't everyone have one?), and has a
>favourable sidebar mention of Tcl/Tk. Not a big deal, but I thought I'd
>bring it to your attention ...
>

A link maybe ?

Sp...@controlq.com

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Oct 10, 2008, 2:07:52 PM10/10/08

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Helmut Giese wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:42:45 +0200
> From: Helmut Giese <hgi...@ratiosoft.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
> Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk advocacy ... Make magazine

Ahh, yes, Make Magazine has a digital sub as well as a paper sub, so the
only thing I can find which resembles a publicly accessible link to the
article are the resources:

http://makezine.com/15/build_notes/

I fear that unless you are a paid subscriber, the link will not get you to
the text ... though the build notes do have a link to ActiveTcl, and give
the .tcl source file for the project ... sorry.

Rob.

Helmut Giese

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Oct 10, 2008, 2:11:55 PM10/10/08

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>> A link maybe ?
>>
>
>Ahh, yes, Make Magazine has a digital sub as well as a paper sub, so the
>only thing I can find which resembles a publicly accessible link to the
>article are the resources:
>
> http://makezine.com/15/build_notes/
>
>I fear that unless you are a paid subscriber, the link will not get you to
>the text ... though the build notes do have a link to ActiveTcl, and give
>the .tcl source file for the project ... sorry.

Hi Rob,
no reason to be sorry - thanks for checking.
Best regards
Helmut Giese

oak...@bardo.clearlight.com

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Oct 10, 2008, 2:17:32 PM10/10/08

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On Oct 10, 1:07 pm, S...@ControlQ.com wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Helmut Giese wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:42:45 +0200
> > From: Helmut Giese <hgi...@ratiosoft.com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
> > Subject: Re: Tcl/Tk advocacy ... Make magazine
>

> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:11:39 -0400, S...@ControlQ.com wrote:
>
> >> The current issue of Make magazine has a project which combines an RFID
> >> reader with a conveyor belt (doesn't everyone have one?), and has a
> >> favourable sidebar mention of Tcl/Tk. Not a big deal, but I thought I'd
> >> bring it to your attention ...
>
> > A link maybe ?
>
> Ahh, yes, Make Magazine has a digital sub as well as a paper sub, so the
> only thing I can find which resembles a publicly accessible link to the
> article are the resources:
>
> http://makezine.com/15/build_notes/
>
> I fear that unless you are a paid subscriber, the link will not get you to
> the text ... though the build notes do have a link to ActiveTcl, and give
> the .tcl source file for the project ... sorry.
>
> Rob.

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I was able to see the relevant bits from this link:
http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol15/?pg=137

Uwe Klein

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Oct 11, 2008, 4:43:24 PM10/11/08

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http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker

makes me grin.

uwe

Neil Madden

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Oct 12, 2008, 12:52:32 PM10/12/08

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?? What am I missing here?

-- Neil

Andreas Leitgeb

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Oct 12, 2008, 4:51:48 PM10/12/08

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Neil Madden <n...@cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:

> Uwe Klein wrote:
>> http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker
>> makes me grin.
> ?? What am I missing here?

This package "tracker" contains a tcl-script for the GUI
and it's not even an old relict, as it even uses some
ttl::-namespaced widgets, without package-require'ing
tile, so it seems to assume at least some >=8.5 version
of "/usr/bin/wish" to be installed :-)

bs

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Oct 12, 2008, 11:57:03 PM10/12/08

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On Oct 12, 1:51 pm, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:

Here's a little history on this:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/10/1/3474384/thread

Neil Madden

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Oct 13, 2008, 12:33:25 AM10/13/08

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The history being that the script was swiftly rewritten into PyGtk.
C'est la vie.

-- Neil

Alexandre Ferrieux

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Oct 13, 2008, 3:41:45 AM10/13/08

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On Oct 13, 6:33 am, Neil Madden <n...@cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> The history being that the script was swiftly rewritten into PyGtk.
> C'est la vie.

We'll survive. Seeing OS gurus come to Tcl only for Tk was frustrating
anyway ;-)

-Alex